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, G. JOHNSON. 'TABLB FOR HOLDING BANK NOTES WHEN GUT. No. 10,575. I Patented Feb. 28, 1854 FRANK o. JOHNsoN, or BROOKLYN; NEW Yam TABLE To HOLD BANK-NOTES WHE our.

To all whom it'm'a z concern:-

Be it known that I, FRANK Gr: JOHNSON of the city of Brooklyn, in the county '0 Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Tablesfor the Purpose of Trimming and Cutting Thereon the Edges of Bank-Notes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of'reference marked thereon, in whiche- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved cutting table as completely adjusted for the cutting and trimming of bank notes. Fig. 2, the screw and needle used as at E E, (Fig. 1) in the cutting table, and introduced to illustrate the manner in which I construct the same. Figs. 3 and 4 represent, "respectively, a spring clasp and T ruler, both used in connection with the table when cutting notes; and Fig. 5 represents a sheet of bank notes with margins uncut.

The only method heretofore practised in the trimming and cutting of the vast numbers of bank notes continually being made, is by means of common shears. The notes are usually printed four on a sheet, as is represented by Fig. 5, requiring to cut them at least thirteen distinct and accurate clips of the shearsso that the most brisk and experienced cutters are able to trim only from 700 to 1000 sheets per day, and are constantly liable to cut off too much or too little of the margins of the notes and hardly ever cutting them with a uniform and desirable accuracy; whereas by means of my improvement I am enabled to cut'from five to seven thousand sheets, and even more, per day leaving the edges perfectly accurate and as smooth as if burnished.

In the accompanying drawings, A A, Fig. 1, represents a table elevated four or five inches by means of legs or standards; B B, cutting board, resting upon the table AVA;

C 0, two thumb screws which work through the top of the table, A A; being provided with sockets into which the needles, E E, are fastened by means of wooden plugs, (B B, Fig. 2.)-The needles E E, pass through the cutting board, B B, by means of the slots D, D.

Directly under the dotted lines, F F, are slots in the table-top, A A, through which pass the two thumb screws, G G, working board, B A A. p 7 v By means of the thumb screws, 0 C, the points of the needles, E E, may be elevated or depressed above or below the upper surface of the cutting board, B B.

By means of the slots, D D, and those in the table-top under F F, the cutting board,

B, to fasten it to the table-top,

B B, may be worked or moved a short distance diagonally across the table, A A, by starting back the thumb screws G G.

'0 and D, (Fig. 5), are cutoff; To cutthe notes E and F apart, (Fig. 5,) first grasp them with the clamps, (Fig. 3,) by placing the cross piece, D,'on E or F (Fig. 5) while the other arm, 0, is passed under the table, A A; now turn down or depress the needles, E E, by means of thethumb' screws, C C; place on the ruller,remove the clamps then cut the notes (E F, Fig. 5), apart. By starting back the thumb'screws, Gr G,'the cutting board, B B, may be moved diagonally over the top of the table, A A, from time to time knife, which brings a new part of the cuttin board under the knife as often as it'is move The use ofthe depressible needles, E E, Fig. 1 is rendered necessary,and,their peculiar in nuts the' under 'su rface of the cutting I position in the table dependent upon the necessity of sticking the notes on the needles through their centralmargin, (A A Fig. 5) and this necessity depends upon the fact, that, owing to the paper upon which notes are printed being slightly uneven in thickness and being wet when printed, some sheets shrink and swell more than others, so. that if the sheets were stuckupon the needles at the corner or end of the same the notes would be even with each other at one endof the sheets, but quite uneven at the other end, rendering it impossible not to leave too much margin on some of the notes while others will be clipped off on the edges,t hus more 9o. as the cutting board becomes gashed by the or less defacing them. This diificulty 'I overcome by adjusting the needles in a transverse central line of the table, and then sticking on the sheets through their central mar gin, (A A Fig. 5), which so divides the inequality of the size of the sheets in all directions from the more central part of the sheet as to allow the several notes to be cut off with suflicient and desirable accuracy.

I do not claim the movable cutting board B B, neither do I claim the depressible needle screws CC, but

, FRANK G. J OHNSON.

Witnesses V FRANCIS T. GARRETTSON,

. DANIEL F. TOMPKINS. 

